Pirate's Cove

Aren’t these the same people that resisted releasing anything on Epstein during the Biden years, who could have released it all while they had control of the White House and Congress?

House Dems Find Their Mojo With the Epstein Saga

When it comes to fighting President Donald Trump, Democrats across the nation have complained for months about the sluggish reflexes of party leaders in Washington.

Who would have guessed that a MAGA-fueled conspiracy theory would change all that?

Congressional Democrats appear to have finally found their mojo in sticking it to the White House by seizing on the Jeffrey Epstein saga to humiliate the president and split the GOP. Unlike in the past, senior Democrats have shown a surprisingly nimble ability in recent days to pivot to the GOP’s vulnerability du jour, threatening to force votes exposing a divided Republican Party.

The strategy has effectively hijacked the House, derailed Hill Republicans’ agenda and forced Speaker Mike Johnson to send lawmakers packing for an early August recess. That’s not to mention embarrassing Trump in the process and exposing the surprising limits of his sway on a party he’s held in his clutches for the better part of a decade.

“We’ve been trying to say Trump is full of shit for years and it hasn’t really stuck, right? But something about this topic is making a healthy portion of MAGA world — particularly folks who are not ideologically aligned with Trump but kind of flirted with him last year when they pulled the lever for him — be like, ‘Yea, he’s definitely full of shit,’” a senior Democratic campaign aide boasted to me. (This aide and others in the story were granted anonymity to speak candidly about dynamics on the Hill.)

Democrats will say they couldn’t release the docs till after Ghislain Maxwell’s trial, but, come on, they’ve never had a problem leaking stuff before. But, did Democrats ever consider that Trump and Republicans are playing them in an attempt to get all the docs released? That they do not include anything that will harm Trump? That Trump and the GOP did this to get Democrats to back releasing them?

Did they ever consider that Trump cannot serve more than one term, that they might be going a bit too moonbat?

Behind the scenes, there’s a question even among senior Democrats about whether this issue will impact the midterms. Americans, after all, are more likely to be motivated by their own pocketbooks rather than online obsessions and scandal. And Trump is doing his damndest to argue that this is exactly that: a very-online, inside-the-beltway obsession that nobody actually cares about.

Really, do most Americans care? Do they even know what this is about? I couldn’t care less. I know many MAGAs care, but, most don’t. How about releasing all the info on the Trump attempted assassinations? All the docs on Russia Russia Russia. Show how much money went to waste and fraud for agencies like USAID, and how the taxpayer money was fed into Democrat re-election coffers instead of helping the poor like it was supposed to. Those are things that matter.